DEADPOOL: A Brief History

Hey Imgurians! I've been doing a series of comic book posts on the original X-Men and keep getting asked to do one on Deadpool. So I decided to take a break from my X-Men series and talk about everyone's favorite Merc with a Mouth!
If you would like to read my previous comic book posts you can find them
Here: Beast: http://imgur.com/gallery/LzirT
And Here: Angel: http://imgur.com/gallery/XzKBs

Deadpool's first appearance was in the pages of New Mutants #98 published in February 1991. He was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld. His appearance is very similar to the DC Comics villain Deathstroke. Both have similar names (Wade Wilson, Slade Wilson), costumes, and both are mercenaries that use swords/guns.
Deadpool's origin starts when Wade WIlson, a U.S. Army soldier had severe cancer and decided to join the Weapon X project. Weapon X (the same group responsible for giving Wolverine his adamantium skeleton) promised to cure/stop Wade's cancer if he became their test subject. Weapon X gave Wade a healing factor derived from Wolverine's and DEADPOOL was born!

Though Deadpool's new healing factor did stop his cancer, it left his entire body scarred and disfigured in the process.
In the scene above Deadpool is trying to go out with another superhero, Big Bertha, (a mutant model who has the extraordinary ability to alter her mass by a tremendous amount, making her skinny in her public identity and morbidly obese in her costumed identity.) When Deadpool shows his face to her, its so disgusting that she literally vomits. Poor, poor Deadpool

For a time, Deadpool had a sidekick, BOB, AGENT OF HYDRA! Bob was persuaded by his wife to join the terrorist organization because Bob couldn't keep a steady job. Bob didn't really like the work, but he dealt with it. One day Deadpool attacked the Hydra base that Bob was stationed at. Deadpool convinced him to leave Hydra and join him. The two then go on to cause hijinks together. Bob hasn't been seen in a comic for a while but theres no telling when he might show up again.

One of the groups that Deadpool has been a major part of in recent years is the Uncanny X-Force. X-Force is a a mutant strike team created to go after and kill individuals that the X-Men couldn't. This team consisted of Deadpool, Deathlok, the Age of Apocalypse's Nightcrawler, Wolverine, E.V.A., Fantomex, and Psylocke. Some of Deadpool's best dialogue and scenes can be be found in the Uncanny X-Force series.

Speaking of some of Deadpool's best scenes ever, this scene taken from Uncanny X-Force is one of my all time favorites. It does a perfect job of showing how Deadpool is both funny and bat shit insane.
During a mission, X-Force was attacked by the evil mutant Apocalypse's four horseman of the apocalypse. Angel was attacked by Famine and was consequently starving to death. Deadpool, being the pal that he is, cut off pieces of his own skin to feed to Angel so he wouldn't die.

Deadpool is also a member of another team, THE DEADPOOL CORPS! The team is made up of different Deadpools from alternate realities. It consists of Deadpool, lady deadpool, headpool, kidpool, and dogpool. They fight villains together like the silent but deadly, Mimepool and the Evil Deadpool, who looks like the Frankenstein's monster had a love child with Deadpool.

In a recent storyline Deadpool was injected with a serum that not only took away his healing factor but also removed all of his scar tissue, making him normal looking again. Deadpool enjoyed not having a healing factor. He said he felt "more alive than ever." The serum was not permanent, however. Soon Deadpool's healing factor would return, along with his disfiguring scars.

Deadpool's healing factor gives him near immortality, chemical resistance, and telepathic immunity. He's an expert martial artist and marksman (for some reason he likes to call guns doorknobs) and is also able to break the fourth wall, meaning he knows that he's in a comic book. His Unpredictability is also a great asset to him. Its really hard for an enemy to predict what Deadpool is going to next, when even Deadpool doesn't know.

Deadpool's only "appearance" on film was in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Here he was played by Ryan Reynolds and Scott Adkins. Ryan Reynolds played Wade Wilson before his transformation into Weapon XI and Scott Adkins played the Weapon XI portion of the character.
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